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Becoming Zimbabwean: A History of Indians in Rhodesia

Becoming Zimbabwean: A History of Indians in Rhodesia

Patel, Trishula Rachna

Hardcover

Series: Reconsiderations in Southern African History

African HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0813954487
ISBN13: 9780813954486
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Jan 5 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The first comprehensive history of Indian migrants and their descendants in Zimbabwe

Becoming Zimbabwean tells the long-overdue story of the Indian community in the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Centering the stories of individuals and families, and building on a foundation of extensive archival research, Trishula Rachna Patel--a Zimbabwean of Indian origin herself--shows that the history of Indians in Zimbabwe is not of a transient diaspora but one of deliberate permanence.

Indians initially played a critical part in the settler colonial process in Southern Rhodesia, but as new generations were born and raised, their politics and social lives evolved to localized forms of citizenship. Eventually, they functioned as part of the resistance to the Rhodesian white minority government, either through participation in the system as nonwhites or by joining the Black anticolonial nationalist movement. They did all this through their shops, African-rooted institutions that became social, economic, and political spaces through which Indians became Zimbabwean. In this highly readable and authoritative study, Patel makes clear that Zimbabwe cannot be properly understood without accounting for the substantial Indian community that has woven itself into the fabric of the nation.

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